i've only seen them a couple times in seattle. they seem incredibly dangerous, not just for the rider and passenger(s), buy also for those of us that need to move around the slowly moving bike taking up a lot of room on the trail or lane.

a trailer is far more respectful of your fellow biking and driving neighbors.

Interesting, I have a Watsonian sidecar on a 1962 BMW R60. First, on a moto, the frame needs to specifically designed for a sidecar, not every bike is capable of handling one. Second, the best definition I have heard of a sidecar is that it handles like a badly designed tricycle. Fun and entertaining but maybe not so practical.

i've only seen them a couple times in seattle. they seem incredibly dangerous, not just for the rider and passenger(s), buy also for those of us that need to move around the slowly moving bike taking up a lot of room on the trail or lane.

a trailer is far more respectful of your fellow biking and driving neighbors.

Pssst...that's how people in cars feel about you on your bike.....your dishing up some bad Karma.

Probably was quite practical for many during the '30's depression era. Think of the parents hauling little tykes but more importantly, goods. A side car also stabilized the rider in the wet, snow or iced over streets.

I've never ridden a bicycle with sidecar, but I have tried a motorcycle with one. The thing resists all your steering inputs because it's not allowed to bank naturally in turns. Same problem with tricycle motorcycles. If the guys who make the laws had ever tried driving one, they'd outlaw them.

Pssst...that's how people in cars feel about you on your bike.....your dishing up some bad Karma.

psst ... i don't take up more than the bike lane, and my skinny bike allows other bikes and peds to move around me on paths, trails, and (most importantly) on the bridge. users of sidecars cannot say the same.

There is a modern sidecar attachment made similar to the cloth covered trailers. I'd advise against it. And I too ride a sidecar motorcycle, but a bicycle is completely different as you have to pedal it. The peddling of the bike through your weight side to side and rocks the bike etc. unlike motorcycle sidecars bicycle sidecars are made to compensate for this by having some flex in the attachments.

I'm going on tour with rhm with one of those next summer. We'll trade off pedaling and freeloading.

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Note to you BLOWHARD MORONS out there: The fork is not bent. Most PEUGEOTS of the '70s forks DID NOT line up with the head tube angle. This is normal. The last pic is from the 1972 Dutch catalog showing this EXACT MODEL in diagram. Keep your comments to yourself......